How Do You Make Felt Hair Clips?
If your daughter is tired of pinning her hair back with the same shiny metal clips day after day, jazz up the hair accessories with handmade felt accents. Create the interchangeable embellishments in favorite shapes like hearts, flowers or butterflies, in colors that coordinate with your daughter’s outfits or other fashion accessories. The technique is so easy that you’ll be able to create sets of personalized hair clips as birthday party favors, holiday stocking stuffers or gifts for classmates. To make a flower, for example, trace a 1- to 3-inch flower shape onto a piece of felt using a shape stencil and a black marker or piece of tailor’s chalk. Cut the shape out with sharp scissors. Repeat the process with a contrasting color of felt so you’ll have two of the same shape, but in different shades. Cut another shape to layer on top of the flowers with a stencil, marker and scissors. Consider a flower shape that’s half the size of the base flower, or a 3/4-inch circle, to become the fl
